Example sentences of "[adv prt] as [adv] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current … |
| 2 | He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day . |
| 3 | Tendrils of Virginia creeper crept down as far as the window-frame , and progressed on little circular suckers across the glass , at huge vegetable speed . |
| 4 | He told Sharpe his patrol was one of the many that daily scouted south to the French border and beyond ; this particular troop had been ordered to explore the villages south and east of Mons down as far as the Sambre , but not to encroach on Prussian territory . |
| 5 | Or only down as far as the moment when the Tiber is hurled back violently from the Etruscan shore ? |
| 6 | The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin . |
| 7 | Consequently , social groups down as far as the craftsmen and artisans developed " an appetite for mass-consumption " which survived the impact of faster population growth in the second half of the century . |
| 8 | Carcinoma , methadone , diabetes , depression , miscarriage and angina have poured down as unremittingly as the weather . |
| 9 | The burden of Russia 's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War . |
| 10 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 11 | He marked in the cabin , the quarry , and the track up as far as the cabin and back down through the dip to the fork . |
| 12 | Saddam 's War takes us up as far as the back-end of last year , but the core of the book is concerned with Saddam 's rise to power and his success in surviving the Iran-Iraq War and turning Iraq into the most heavily armed state in the Arab world . |
| 13 | It said , ‘ Bring these men up as far as the penthouse , no further . |
| 14 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 15 | Not feeling up to arguing the point , she left quietly , knowing everyone else in the Carlisle Flint team was wound up as tight as the drivers , waiting for the green light . |
| 16 | They clattered on as far as the door ; under workbenches , into cracks , finding every obscure corner . |
| 17 | As for his own talk — that , once begun , had , as usual , spun itself out as thoughtlessly as the wind : he believed it and quite often it was true or partly true — and if others believed it — a bargain had been struck . |
| 18 | It wo n't always work out as tidily as the Grid suggests ! |
| 19 | The larger mire , Thorne Waste , approached by surmounting the incongruous dereliction of Moor Ends Colliery , stretches out as far as the eye can see , an astonishing 6,000 acres of untamed wetland . |
| 20 | The private grounds surrounding the villa offer relaxation either by the swimming pool , which is equipped with deck-chairs and umbrellas , or in the shade of centuries old trees where a meandering spectacle of olive groves , vineyards , fields and hills stretches out as far as the eye can see . |
| 21 | They have got a program of what 's being pulled out as far as the trucks are concerned . |
| 22 | The Roraima survivors described burning rum running down the streets and even into the sea , spreading out as far as the ship and causing small fires on her . |
| 23 | I stop playing the pipes before we leave the town as I appear to be missing out as far as the wine is concerned ! |
| 24 | It could date back as far as the middle of the ninth century and was closely associated with the later castle . |
| 25 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 26 | Stretching back as far as the eye can see ; 12,000 children on the march in the Southern Sudan . |